Skyscanner Is Making Its First Real Attempt to Crack Metasearch in the U.S.
Skift Take
Skyscanner will likely experience some of the same problems that Hipmunk faces in the U.S. market: It is late to the game, although Gareth Williams feels it is still early when looking at the big picture. And, it will take a lot of years to build up Skyscanner's hotel business both in the U.S. and abroad.
Gareth Williams, the CEO of Edinburgh-based Skyscanner, has likely never heard of New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra, who infamously once said, “It gets late early out there.”
Williams, whose mostly flight-metasearch company just named Alex Rahe, most previously from the Global Business Travel Association Foundation, as Skyscanner's Americas general manager, and opened a Miami office, takes a contrarian view.
He argues that these are the early days for online travel, even in a seemingly mature U.S. market.
“I think it is a very immature market,” Williams tells Skift, in an interview at the PhoCusWrig
